Broken Earmark Promises - HUMAN EVENTS

by Michelle Oddis


Wednesday -- behind closed doors -- President Barack Obama signed his 2009 Omnibus spending package, calling it an “imperfect” bill. With 8,570 disclosed earmarks worth $7.7 billion “imperfect” is an understatement.

It’s bad enough that our president was in an irresponsible rush to spend hundreds of billions with his “stimulus” package ($787 billion), and soon $350 million in the second half of the TARP funds, $32 billion -- at least -- for his new SCHIP program, and now $410 billion in his “imperfect” omnibus bill, but on top of that, he’s been dishonest.

Just two weeks before Obama took office he told reporters that his plans would set a ......